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There's just an incredibly rich and interesting relationship between our listening to music and the way our minds engage. — Tod Machover

A lovely young girl lies on a bed in the dark listening to a fairy tale," I said. "But she's naked and the storyteller's hands are all over her. — Glen Duncan

Mama says it's okay to be on the quiet side - if quiet means you're listening, watching, taking it all in. — Jacqueline Woodson

Prayer is not just asking. It is listening for God's orders. — Billy Graham

I got really tired of metal music. How do you pick what's good to sell when you're not totally into what you're listening to and marketing? — Blake Judd

That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing. — Alison Krauss

Somebody once told me that whatever you're listening to at 30 years old is going to be what you listen to for life and that's largely true. — Michael Wilbon

Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand. — Justin Trudeau

When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement. — Bryant McGill

Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening. — William J. Clinton

And I know what people say about not listening to insults or how you should let stuff roll off you, but it's not that easy. — Elizabeth Scott

Just as our love for God begins with listening to God's Word, the beginning of love for other Christians is learning to listen to them. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I was listening to the inclusiveness of Spider-Man, and why he's so appealing to so many people, but I didn't connect it all at first. — Brian Michael Bendis

He hands the page to his wife and looks across the room to Colleen's picture, listening to her absence, breathing deeply the air she can't share. — Steven Herrick

Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively. — Carl Rogers

There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing. — G.K. Chesterton

Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want him to do. — Mignon McLaughlin

It's easy listening to a record, but a live performance is so personal and real. — Gin Wigmore

It was Henry's nature to listen, and many times during the week he would say, 'Gosh, I'm awful sorry to hear that, ' or 'Say, isn't that something? — Elizabeth Strout

I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking. — Reba McEntire

You never get people's fuller attention than when you're listening to them. — Robert Breault

This chapter is an attempt to share with you some insights about story listening and how to do it. — John S. Savage

A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music. — Walt Disney

All of us need better skills in listening, conversing, respecting one another's uniqueness, because these are essential for strong relationships. — Margaret J. Wheatley

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty. — Imelda Marcos

Your hearing is just fine. It's your listening that seems to be the problem. — Julie Johnson

Listening back to your speaking voice for the first time, unless you're James Earl Jones, it's a quite distressing process for most people. — Philip Selway

Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears. — R.A. Torrey

Radio is paid by advertising. They decide what songs to play that'll keep people listening. And that's what promoters and the Classic Rock people do. — George Thorogood

With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny. — Kristen Wiig

Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again. — Andre Gide

Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own. — Andrew Mason

my skin listening

still no accompanist:

I can't kiss me!

and the sperm's tempo
always insisting — Andrew Demcak

The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening. — Randy Pausch

So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there's no way you're gonna find out what it means. — Frank Zappa

On my face extended flat
I was walloped with a cat
For listening at the key-hole of the door. — W.S. Gilbert

I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell's version of "A Case of You." My mom was a huge Joni Mitchell fan. — Cheyenne Jackson

Listening to Led Zeppelin's Heartbreaker while reading your own book, sipping a beer after midnight, is a satisfying feeling...however fleeting. — Jonathan Heatt

He who didn't succeed at his own dreams, was too busy listening to another's failures. — Nikki Rowe

Like when I'm singing live I can't hear myself. I'm just listening to the rest of the band. To listen to my voice, it doesn't even feel like it's me. — Sia Furler

I want to tell him more, too. I always want to tell him more, but now that I know he's listening- really listening- it means something different. — David Levithan

Social is about engaging, it's about a conversation, it's about listening and then responding, it's an ongoing conversation with our fan base. — Stephanie McMahon

Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language. — Fulton J. Sheen

I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American. — Steve Vai

I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening ... that's the art. — Bette Midler

I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion. — Sara Zarr

information, listening to every word with rapt attention. Now that she had established herself in the duke's household, the last thing — Brenda Novak

He had to ask these questions and then remain absolutely silent. Listening in silence was essential to making a comprehensive scan of a person's soul. — Nina George

Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices. — Fred Upton

The ears and the heart are connected, it's true,
for when ears open wide, the heart opens up too. — Richelle E. Goodrich

A relationship calls for sympathetic listening with a view to understanding the other person's thoughts, feelings, and desires. — Gary Chapman

But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music. — John Cena

It's safe to talk openly and honestly with people because they're not really listening. — Chuck Lorre

Like I'm listening to a garden seashell for the echo of her take-no-prisoners affection, I lay my head against Mom's cold pillow. — Rodney Ross

Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech. — Harold Holzer

There is so much to be learned from listening to people's hopes, frustrations, and points of view — Richard Branson

Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation-and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies. — Frank C. Laubach

When Franklin says yes, yes, yes, he isn't agreeing with you. He's just listening to you. — Gore Vidal

It's really my fault because I continue listening to the things that you say. — Brian Clevinger

Listening is active. At its most basic level, it's about focus, paying attention. — Simon Sinek

I like listening to music and driving. How do you say ... It's the only way I can 'chillax.' — Lapo Elkann

Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude. — John C. Maxwell

There is space for a different kind of investigative reporting that's about immersion and obsessive attention to detail and deep listening. — Sarah Stillman

Sorry' isn't a synonym for 'guilty.' It's a way to say you're listening. — Martina Boone

So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies. — Jodie Foster

There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the salvageable truth. — Anne Rice

It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through. — Colin Hay

When someone is in a car accident and they're driving at 100 mph, drunk, who's tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it. — Billie Joe Armstrong

I really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read. — S.E. Hinton

I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs. — Mayer Hawthorne

Compassion: listening to a month's worth of snivelling when you break up with yet another asshole. — Martyn V. Halm

There's a difference between listening passively and listening aggressively. To listen with your heart, you have to listen actively. — John C. Maxwell

I'm listening to Neil Young, I gotta turn up the sound. Someone's always yellin', 'Turn him down'."
"Highlands" from "Time Out of Mind" (1997) — Bob Dylan

Pheoby's hungry listening helped Janie to tell her story. — Zora Neale Hurston

To be a great composer requires immense experience ... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own! — Frederic Chopin

I think, for me, listening to music is a very solitary thing. Or maybe that's just something people say when they're too lame to go to live shows. — Becky Albertalli

Listening to Dad's guitar, halting yet lovely in the search for phrasing, I thought: Fair is whatever God wants to do. — Leif Enger

For a woman's words to wound would require a man to listen first! — Meredith Duran

I learned quickly that if the student's perception is that you're not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you. — Tim Gunn

When students practice good classroom listening skills, these also become useful life skills. — Michael S. Lawson

I enjoy writing rhymes and sitting alone in a room listening to beats. It's pretty amazing. — Joaquin Phoenix

There's no better way to serve and nourish the magnificence in another person than to simply listen to them openheartedly and without judgment. — Henry Kimsey-House

There's no genius behind it. It's persistence and listening to people. — Craig Newmark

There's a difference between hearing people and listening to them. — John C. Maxwell

He could follow someone's mind around, and get where it was going before the other fellow knew where it was going. — Robert A. Caro

You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two-by-four. I always found listening easier. — S.M. Stirling

I find it creatively satisfying to write material and say it out loud in a public place, whether or not anyone's listening. — Maria Bamford

There's a young man in a T-shirt listening to a rock and roll station. He's got greasy hair, greasy smile, he says, Lord this must be my destination. — John Mellencamp

It's about listening first, then selling. — Erik Qualman

Has he ever even said he loved you?"
"He's been telling me for years," she said softly, "I just wasn't listening — Connie Brockway

Listening is not waiting for your turn to talk — S.E. Sever

I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary. — Mignon McLaughlin

Maybe it wasn't that he didn't want to talk about himself before now, she thought guiltily. Maybe it's just that I wasn't interested in listening. — Cathy Hapka

I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain. — Charles Bukowski

The whole experience of getting an album from an artist you like and listening to it from beginning to end is sort of gone. Now it's piecemeal. — Tom Scholz

What's the use of saying anything, when you're not even listening? - excerpt from: freefalling — Darlenne Susan Girard

I have been listening," said Arthur, "but I'm not sure it's helped. — Douglas Adams

It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music. — Mayer Hawthorne

To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening. — Etta James

There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems. — Sue Townsend